When you visit or use the website of Maverick Designs (the "Company") the Company may require certain details including, personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act")) from you, including without limitation your name and email address. This policy is in relation to these details and any other personal data that the Company subsequently collect from you or about you or any other third party (collectively "the Information").

The Company considers your privacy and the privacy of any Information provided to be very important and this policy sets out the reasons for requesting and using the Information.

Use and Disclosure of Information

The Company will use the Information in a variety of ways, some of which will assist and enable the Company to provide its services to you. This may include for example the Company contacting you directly to monitor progress and to inform you of the Company services relating to your purchases, progress of purchase or enquiries you may have made or information provided by you and publishing certain Information (e.g. your name and email address or method of payment) on certain pages of the Company websites (which, for the avoidance of doubt, can only be accessed by you and certain Company directors, officers, employees, agents and licensees). The personal details the Company requests allow the Company to contact you by letter, telephone fax or email. Other details requested are for the purposes of calculating the costs of the goods and services required and the price of any goods and services.

The Company may retain the Information and use it for direct marketing services relating to goods and/or services provided by the Company and/or third parties. By providing the Company with the Information as requested in the Company websites you shall be indicating your consent or warrant that consent has been provided by you to receiving direct marketing from the Company and/or third parties unless you have indicated an objection to receiving such direct marketing by clicking on the following opt-out box:

The Company may sell or otherwise provide Information to third parties in order for those third parties to offer goods and services to you that may be unrelated to the Company. By providing the Company with the Information as requested in the Company websites you shall be indicating your consent to receiving direct marketing from the Company and/or third parties unless you have indicated an objection to receiving such direct marketing by clicking on the following opt-out box:

The Company reserves the right to report any activity which the Company suspects violates any relevant laws or regulations to the appropriate authority. If the Company is requested by such authority for the Information the Company reserves the right to disclose it to them.

Warranties and Indemnity

You represent, warrant and undertake to the Company that: -

• You have fully complied with the Act in all respects in relation to the Information; and
• In providing the Information to the Company for the purposes detailed above you will not in any way be in breach of the Act.

You shall indemnify and keep the Company's directors, officers, employees and agents fully indemnified against all actions, claims, proceedings, costs and damages (including without limitation any damages or compensation paid by the Company on the advice of its legal advisors to compromise or settle any claim) and all legal costs or other expenses arising out of any breach of the above representations, warranties and undertakings or out of any claims by a third party based on any facts which if substantiated would constitute such a breach.
Keeping the Company's records accurate

The Company aims to keep all Information it holds as accurate and up to date as possible. If you would like to review or change the Information you have supplied to the Company, please contact the Company as set out below. The Company will store the Information in accordance with its obligations under the Act.

Security

All Information will be kept as confidential and as secure as possible through the use of the Company secure server software. This means that Information can only be exchanged between you, the Company and any third party to whom the Company decides to transfer the Information to for the purposes detailed on the Company websites or Company documents. Furthermore as required by the Act the Company follows strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of the Information that you have given to the Company so as to prevent unauthorised access.

The Company uses industry standard practices to safeguard the confidentiality of the Information including without limitation "firewalls". The Company treats the Information as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorised access. The Company use many different security techniques to protect the Information from unauthorised access by users inside and outside the Company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive allowing websites to recognise one user from another when using the Company website. Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive if you want to. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but your web browser can be altered so as to prevent acceptance.

All websites operated by the Company use cookies, however these cookies do not contain any personal data. Any use of the Company websites, shall be subject to cookies unless you reject them.

Your Rights

Under the Act you are entitled, on the payment of a fee, to be given by the Company a description of all personal data the Company holds about you, the purposes for which this is being processed and the recipients to whom this may be disclosed. You also have the right to have communicated to you in an intelligible form the information constituting the personal data and any information available to the Company as to the source of that personal data. If you require any further information on this point please contact the Company as detailed below.
General

The Company reserves the right to vary the terms and conditions of this policy from time to time. Such variations become effective immediately upon the posting of the varied policy on the Company website. After such posting you will be deemed to accept such variations. You should visit this page periodically to review this policy and its terms and conditions because they are binding upon you.

In the event that any term of this policy is held to be invalid, unlawful, void or for any reason unenforceable, that term shall be deemed severable and the remainder of this policy shall remain valid and enforceable. No waiver of any term of this policy shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term.